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Animal Farm by George Orwell
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:25:59
Publish Date: 2017-07-02 22:59:20
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Along with Orwell’s 1984, this book is one of the most important of the Cold War era.   Orwell was a socialist and not entirely unsympathetic to the political theories behind communism.  Instead of building bridges between the Soviet regime and the Western democracies, he wound up being one of the fiercest critics of the Soviets and their totalitarian system….and thus critical of the Western democracies for normalizing and even praising Stalin due to wartime pragmatism.

Animal Farm is a textbook example of a well-written historical allegory, everything fits so well as far as the characters, chain of events and themes.  It’s even “human” enough to garner a lot of sympathy for the animals that live under “animalism”.   Perhaps this is a criticism of some of the “better dead than red” rhetoric that would be coming in the years ahead?

Anyways, it’s nice to be back.   I took a few weeks off after the birth of our new son, Vincent Alexander.   Everything is going great with him so far.

Here’s the cartoon version of Animal Farm, which is very good…and funded by the CIA, apparently.

 

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